Topic

• Bootstrap RPM
• Buildtree for end user
• Comment characters are not working in macros
• Omit find_requires during rpmbuild
• Unpackaged files terminates rpmbuild
• Repair an RPM database
• Requires cross-dependencies
• Restore pristine permissions and ownership
• Return Codes
• RPM v.3 to v.4 transition
• rpm -ba deprecated -- rpmbuild
• Unpackaged files
• debuginfo rpmbuild failure
• interactive installs deprecated

There is a long time tradition in the amateur radio community of compiling Hints and Kinks -- quick documentation of a solution which does not merit a whole article. The Jim <?> Fisk series of quick hints in the former HR Magazine, and the long running series in QST come to mind. Curiously, or perhaps not, many in the amateur radio community have also moved to inhabit the Open Source world as well.

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